Diabetes

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Autoimmune Process When the body’s immune system attacks and destroys body tissue mistaken to be foreign matter. Beta Cells...
Woman eating tofu
A vegan refers to someone who doesn't use or eat animal products. Unlike vegetarians, who don't eat meat, vegans: don't eat any...
Around 23.6 million children and adults – 8% of the population – have diabetes. About 5.7 million people don’t know they have...
Chocolate
Chocolate can be bittersweet, and we don’t mean literally. While chocolate has many benefits to your health, some facts about...
Diabetes affects more than 250 million people worldwide and experts say that by 2025, that number will soar to 380 million....
Diabetes is one of the most common chronic diseases to affect children. It can strike children of any age, even babies. Sadly,...
Globally, there are close to 500,000 children under the age of 15 with type 1 diabetes. Every day 200 children develop...
David Schwartz
David is among 5 finalists up for a $100,000 Grand Prize at this year's Do Something Awards on Vh1. Check out what inspired David...
Meet Jake Fine, who in 2004, at the tender age of seven, was diagnosed with Type-1 Juvenile Diabetes. And thus he was unwillingly...
Teen Boy eating a burger
20% of meals are eaten in the car. In 2000, Americans consumed an average of 57 more pounds of meat than in the 1950s. According...